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My Pink Oyster Mycelium is eating up the fruiting blocks I made. Did a masters mix of 1lb wood pellets to 1lb soy hull pellets. I originally attempted to do a sterilized fruiting block with my PC fitting in 4 5lb fruiting blocks from a tutorial I followed. Long story short I was having issues compared to grain bags. I figured it was something to deal with the density, once I figured out how to fit all 4 bags and filling it up with enough water where it covers the 4 bottom bags my induction cooker wasn’t really able to get the PC hot enough to maintain a proper 15 PSI, I find it strange cause I was able to fit 20lb of grain bags in the PC and cover the top of the Pc with my trivet vs a plate and was able to cook all the bags perfectly. My conclusion is the fruiting blocks are far more dense that you got to take all of the proper precautions, even though I followed it with the density of the substrates I would of had to do it on the stove top which unfortunately doesn’t work out due to how it’s setup hence why I use my induction cooker. Even though I was disappointed I revisited pasteurized fruiting blocks tek but with my own version of it. Still did 1lb of hardwood fuel pellet to a 1lb of soy hull pellets to 5.5cups of boiling hot water from my electric kettle, all I did was roll the top of the bag over and with my heat resistant gloves give it a good shake. After I got done shaking the bags I folded the flap over and let it cooled. As for inoculation I did half a jar per bag and as you can see the results are perfect! The Soy Hulls will cost you the most, but the hardwood fuel pellets themselves are very affordable from Walmart. Being space friendly and low tek this allows other mycologist use to do pasteurized teks to cross over and do the same with the gourmets. This experiment is to prove that if you can’t get one method figured out you can rely on this one and still get great results! Can’t wait to see these fruit and bring me some yummy fruit!